Saturday, November 14, 2015

A Reason to Stay

Title: A Reason to
Stay (A Texas Gold Novel #3)

Author: Kellie Coates Gilbert

Pages: 336

Year: 2015

Publisher: Revell

My rating is 4 stars.

The other two novels in this series are, A Woman of Fortune and Where Rivers Part. Each book can be read as a stand-alone, so if
you dislike one you can try another. Why
do I suggest trying another? Well, A Woman of Fortune wasn’t bad, but it
just didn’t draw me in whereas Where
Rivers Part captured my heart. Now,
with A Reason to Stay, it was a
little hard to read though not due to the author’s writing. There is a scene in chapter two that
unfortunately is reminiscent of an actual event where a shooter took the life
of a reporter, cameraman and injured the woman being interviewed. For me that was very hard to read even though
in a fictional world and with made up characters. I don’t think the author intended to hurt
anyone by including this scene in her novel, but it might be hard for some to
read.

The main female character is Faith who is working in the media
as a news anchor when the news station decides to hire a professional group to
shadow Faith for a couple weeks. With
the viewership in slow decline, they want to find out what changes need to be
made in order to bring the ratings back up.
Faith isn’t happy about this and it appears this professional group
peeks into every part of her life, both professional and personal.

Faith was not happy in her marriage and hadn’t decided which
route she wanted to take. Geary, her husband
had a definite view of how he wanted some things done in his marriage to
Faith. Both bring their baggage into the
marriage as well as their brokenness, which must be dealt with or their
marriage is over even though it has barely begun.

The best truth of the whole book is that when we turn things
over to God and work on our marriage, amazing things happen. It isn’t a magic wand; it is hard work mostly
on our knees in prayer and some may take part in counseling. However, God leads couples to face their hearts’
truth and knowing He will do above and beyond all we ask or think brings
hope. I for one can testify that God
does heal peoples’ broken marriages and can cause growth. He also renews, restores and refreshes! So it is so good that the author gives the
readers real hope that is found in God and God alone!

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services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my
blog. Regardless, I only recommend
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